Amether is back, and with a vengence/songs

So, I've been away. Away, battling crime with fun sized cans of diet coke (cherry and lime flavour) as well as creating pieces of music out of other people's songs. Imagine, if you can, taking a piece of Shostakovich, or Schostakovic, or another composer of similar name, and then, with his permission, cutting bits out, moving them around, adding your own bits, reversing bits, and generally poking around with it, and creating a new piece, that is the same, but different. Welcome to the world of reeeeeeemix (emix.. emix.. emix.. emix..).

So I did some.

Techniques - it's a remix. They give me the individual tracks of their recording, I mix them about and add my own bits. Structure is of little importance, really. I mean, you can hear it for yourself. Downward spiral took me about 3 months, I Hold My Breath about 2 months. Obstacles when composing - I wanted to make Downward Spiral just using their samples, but found it unsatisfying with the drums. So I added my own. And it all went nicely. Using a good ol' Novation Bass Station for the bass. Hm. It sounds so nice. Summary - listen to the originals. They're good.

Artsian Remix - Downward Spiral - go to www.myspace.com/artisanmusic to hear the original...

Artisan Remix - I Hold My Breath - go to www.myspace.com/artisanmusic to hear the original...

So, tell me how much you hate, love, or indifferent them. They are effectively the same work - imagine two movements. - They're similar. I can take one out and put it in a different thread if needed, but it seems a little silly maybe. I dunno.

Ah, some good old minimalism. :ninja:

Download Spiral is very well handled. I like the guitar (is it a guitar?) with the delay. And your drums really are quite cool, as are the vocals and reversed sound samples.

I really do look up to your compositional style, Stefan. Very strong, harmonically, structurally and rhythmically. Orange Dust regularly makes intrusions into my head, and a few weeks ago I made the effort of actually tracking it down again so I could listen for real. Great stuff.

Unfortunately I don't have time to listen to the second one but I may well give it a whirl when I have time later today or tomorrow.

Thanks Mike!

Yes, it's a guitar. And a piano.

Wow, good to know Orangedust is still doing the rounds. I have been considering updating the thing - same piece but with the better sounds I now have at my disposal.. Hm..! Anyway, thanks for the kind words.

Would you call it minimalism?!

Would you call it minimalism?!

Actually I must confess I kind of wrote that down just as the piece was getting started and may have made the assumption that it was going to be minimalistic, taking into account its composer. Overall though I wouldn't say it was that minimalistic. It has repetition, definitely, but that comes with the territory when you write in such a genre.

An update of Orangedust? I look forward to hearing that.